Between Facts and Norms Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Name: Between Facts and Norms Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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ISBN: 9780262082433

ISBN-10: 0262082438

ISBN-13: 9780262082433

Edition: 1996

Authors: Jï¿½rgen Habermas, William Rehg

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In Between Facts and Norms Jrgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), bringing to fruition the project announced with his publication of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in 1962. This new work is a major contribution to recent debates on the rule of law and the possibilities of democracy in postindustrial societies, but it is much more. The introduction by William Rehg succinctly captures the special nature of the work, noting that it offers a sweeping, sociologically informed conceptualization of law and basic rights, a normative account of the rule of law and the constitutional state, an attempt to bridge…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/10/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 676
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Jï¿½rgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.

William Rehg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the translator of Jï¿½rgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1996) and the coeditor of Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics and Pluralism (1997) and The Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory (2001), all published by the MIT Press.



Translator's Introduction


Preface


Law as a Category of Social Mediation between Facts and Norms


The Sociology of Law versus the Philosophy of Justice


A Reconstructive Approach to Law I: The System of Rights


A Reconstructive Approach to Law II: The Principles of the Constitutional State


The Indeterminacy of Law and the Rationality of Adjudication


Judiciary and Legislature: On the Role and Legitimacy of Constitutional Adjudication


Deliberative Politics: A Procedural Concept of Democracy


Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere


Paradigms of Law


Postscript (1994)


Appendices


Notes


Bibliography


Index